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it sounds so worldly which is how we wanted to think of ourselves, but lord, we were just children, sent by the government to fly airplanes and to save western europe from world war iii. we thought we had all the important things still left to do and were just playing at importance for the time being. it never occurred to us, living in our community of friends, having first babies, seeing husbands die, helping young widows pack to go home, that we had already started the important things. what could we have been thinking, or perhaps it's how could we have known that times get no better, that important things come without background music, that life is largely a matter of paying attention. >> "life comes without background music." >> which we raised on movies tend to think that when good things happen and things are good, there's great background music. >> choosing gratitude. why gratitude and why now? >> well, i guess it started with my increasing frustration about how polarized we are in the country. how much discontent there is. people ask me now, "how are you doing?" and i say, "consi
it sounds so worldly which is how we wanted to think of ourselves, but lord, we were just children, sent by the government to fly airplanes and to save western europe from world war iii. we thought we had all the important things still left to do and were just playing at importance for the time being. it never occurred to us, living in our community of friends, having first babies, seeing husbands die, helping young widows pack to go home, that we had already started the important things. what...
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. >> that's just why the good lord made it mandatory to eat your heart out down in purgatory. >> wisdom is better than rubies. >> among the jeweled bishops and other boobies it's also a whole lot rarer than rubies. >> he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool. >> trusting your heart may not be awfully bright, but trusting proverbs is an idiot's delight. >> i like that, i like that. that's from "perfidious proverbs," which is your new book. what gives you happiness? what gives you joy? >> poetry does, music does, theater does, but mostly i think it's just having my wife and living quietly and enjoying being together. i think that's the greatest thing in my life. >> philip appleman, thank you very much for being with me. >> thank you. >>> that's it for this week. i'll see you here next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york. celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a j
. >> that's just why the good lord made it mandatory to eat your heart out down in purgatory. >> wisdom is better than rubies. >> among the jeweled bishops and other boobies it's also a whole lot rarer than rubies. >> he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool. >> trusting your heart may not be awfully bright, but trusting proverbs is an idiot's delight. >> i like that, i like that. that's from "perfidious proverbs," which is your new book. what...
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. >> good lord. >> are you okay, mom? is the baby hurting you? >> are you going to be alive in ten seconds? >> oh, my god, i'm having a hot flash. >> it's just fanning you, logan. i think it would be difficult for the baby to grow up here because we don't have a lot of money. toasted oats, cheerios, apple sauce, some fruit. milk. beef stew. beef lasagna. we don't have the money to buy diapers for it and food for it. and the good part is that my mom's happy, like my family's happy. i don't really care if i'm happy or not. i just care if my family's happy. >> walways mane, don't we? >> mm-hmm. >> you know why? >> why? >> we're survivors. struggle, survive and smile. >> how come we smile when we struggle and survive? >> because it helps us from going insane. >> no, that makes us insane. >> makes you insane when you give up. you're never going to give up, are you? >> nope. no, ma'am. keep going, keep going. when you feel like you've had enough and you want qui that's when you push yourself more and make yourself do it. i think the think i miss the mo
. >> good lord. >> are you okay, mom? is the baby hurting you? >> are you going to be alive in ten seconds? >> oh, my god, i'm having a hot flash. >> it's just fanning you, logan. i think it would be difficult for the baby to grow up here because we don't have a lot of money. toasted oats, cheerios, apple sauce, some fruit. milk. beef stew. beef lasagna. we don't have the money to buy diapers for it and food for it. and the good part is that my mom's happy, like my...
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prepare the way of the lord. make his path straight. >> narrator: the gospel of mark is the oldest in the new testament. it was written soon after the failure of the first revolt for a community that was struggling to reconcile its expectations of jesus with the loss of the temple. >> we know a little bit about mark's community from some things in the gospel itself. mark's audience reads greek and not aramaic. mark always has to explain the aramaic phrases that jesus uses. >> ( dramatized ): taking her by the hand, he said to her, "talitha cumi," which means, "little girl," "i say to you, arise." >> mark is written for a jewish- christian audience living somewhere outside the homeland, and thus reflecting on the events of the first revolt, from that vantage point. >> narrator: mark's audience may have watched roman soldiers parading through the streets, bearing plunder stolen from the temple. they would certainly have seen, even been forced to use, the coins that depicted the terrible defeat. >> mark is clearly r
prepare the way of the lord. make his path straight. >> narrator: the gospel of mark is the oldest in the new testament. it was written soon after the failure of the first revolt for a community that was struggling to reconcile its expectations of jesus with the loss of the temple. >> we know a little bit about mark's community from some things in the gospel itself. mark's audience reads greek and not aramaic. mark always has to explain the aramaic phrases that jesus uses. >>...
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greet apelles, greet ampliatus, my beloved in the lord. greet urbanus, our coworker in christ and my beloved stachys... >> the traditional view of the composition of the early christian communities is that they are from the proletariat. early marxist interpreters of christianity make a great to-do with this. it's a movement of the proletariat. it's essentially from the lowest classes. but if you actually look at the book of acts, and you look at paul, and you begin to collect the people who are named or identified in some way, here you have erastus, the city treasurer of corinth. >> narrator: an ancient inscription with the name of paul's follower, erastus, can still be seen in the ruins of corinth. >> you have gaius of corinth, whose home is big enough to let him be not only paul's host but the host to all of the churches of corinth. all of the little household communities can meet in his house at one time. you have stephanos and his household who have been host to the community. you have lydia in philippi, who is the seller of purple goo
greet apelles, greet ampliatus, my beloved in the lord. greet urbanus, our coworker in christ and my beloved stachys... >> the traditional view of the composition of the early christian communities is that they are from the proletariat. early marxist interpreters of christianity make a great to-do with this. it's a movement of the proletariat. it's essentially from the lowest classes. but if you actually look at the book of acts, and you look at paul, and you begin to collect the people...